Ines Kappert

Ines Kappert (2016)

Ines Kappert (born 1970 ) is a German literary scholar , cultural theorist and journalist . Since 2015 she has headed the Gunda Werner Institute of the Böll Foundation .

Life

Ines Kappert studied in Berlin and Paris. She received her PhD in General and Comparative Literature at the Center for Feminist Literature of the University of Hamburg for Dr. phil. Her dissertation was entitled The Man in Crisis. Or: Criticism of Capitalism in Mainstream Culture published as a book in 2008.

She worked as a research assistant at the Federal Cultural Foundation for the initiative project Relations. Responsible for art and culture in Eastern Europe as well as editor and author of the magazine figurationen . From 2007 to 2015 she worked as an editor at taz and from 2000 headed the opinion department. Since 2010 she has been teaching gender awareness courses at the St. Gallen Business School . In the summer of 2015, she took over the management of the Gunda Werner Institute together with Henning von Bargen, succeeding Gitti Hentschel . Her main topics are feminism , masculinity designs, Syria and displaced persons .

In May 2017, together with Annika Reich , she initiated the literature portal Continue writing for authors who have fled from crisis areas.

Publications

• Jump into town. Chisinau, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana: cultural positions, political conditions. Seven scenes from Europe , together with Katrin Klingan, 1st edition, DuMont Buchverlag, 2006
• The man in crisis. Or: Criticism of Capitalism in Mainstream Culture , Transcript Verlag, 2008

As editor

• Gender Revisited. Political and subject terms in culture and media , Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2002
• Crisis figure Mann = Male crises , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002
• Thinking that leads to death. Suicide - the taboo and its breaches (= Hamburg contributions to the psychotherapy of suicidality 5), with Benigna Gerisch and Georg Fiedler, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004

Web links

• Literature by and about Ines Kappert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the website of the Böll Foundation
• Article by Ines Kappert in the Taz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felix Krämer: Review of: Kappert, Ines: The man in the crisis. Or: criticism of capitalism in mainstream culture. Bielefeld 2008, in: H-Soz-Kult, March 24, 2009
2. ↑ Interview by Carolin Wiedemann with Ines Kappert, Spiegel Online, October 15, 2015
3. ^ "Continue writing" - literature portal for refugee authors Kulturzeit-News from Friday, 3rd Sat, May 19, 2017
4. ↑ I became the sea , Zeit Online, May 19, 2017